UPDATE: I’m a dumbass. Huffpo was reporting the Variety article as a new story, and I didn’t notice we had already covered this. So if you’ve been reading this site for awhile, you already knew this casting news when Andrew posted it. Mea culpa.

This casting was a forgone conclusion, with the long-running negotiations and Momoa being spotted at the rock climbing gym near the Detroit set of the movie where Gal Gadot (Wonder Woman) has also been working out. And just last week director Zack Snyder was calling in to a Detroit radio show to defend Aquaman. He claimed Aquaman “has some cool abilities”, saying “he’s Triton so you have to realize that could cut the flesh of Superman if they came in contact. That’s a thing that’s in the canon. He’s super strong cause of course he can exist at these super deep depths so when he comes up here he’s crazy strong.” If it were someone besides Khal freaking Drogo, we’d have a hard time believing that.

Unfortunately, both Batman v Superman and Game of Thrones are filming now. Which I assume is the same reason preventing Arrow from bridging DC film/TV universe. (Plus, as great a backstory/universe Arrow has established, I believe without knowing how fans will take to Flash, it’d be difficult to include Arrow in film universe and not Flash.)

And as great as NC-W could be as Aquaman, I think Jason Momoa fits with ages of the other members of the Justice League, aside from the older/wiser Batman. And Aquaman as a part Samoan or Hawaiian, part Atlantean, helps separate their new/rebooted Aquaman from the campy, heavily criticized, blonde Aquaman.

I’m gonna be honest here… I am excited for no reason whatsoever. He was wicked on Game of Thrones and I think we’ll see some serious butt-kicking from Aquaman. I can picture him bitchslapping Braniac with a massive Tuna nun-chuck.